Hunt for son of MP's maid continues

Even after over 48 hours of his disappearance, the Delhi Police seemed clueless about the whereabouts of the son of 35-year-old domestic help Rakhi, who was allegedly tortured to death by BSP MP Dhananjay Singh's wife Jagriti at their South Avenue residence.

Shehzan, 21, went missing from outside the Chanakyapuri police station on Thursday night.

"His phone's location was last traced to the New Delhi railway station. After that, his mobile has been switched off," a senior police officer said.

Jagriti Singh (right) has been booked under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC, and the Juvenile Justice Act for allegedly torturing andmurdering the maid and assaulting another servant; at left is MP Dhananjay Singh

The police said Shehzan, who had arrived in Delhi on Thursday to take the body of his mother after the postmortem, informed them that he spoke to his mother three months ago and was unaware of any detail about how she was being treated in the MP's house.

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The body, in the meantime, remains unclaimed in a mortuary as the police have also been unable to trace any other family member of the maid in West Bengal.

A team of the Delhi Police, which was sent to North-24 Parganas district, found the house of the maid bolted from outside.

Rakhi's body was found
by the police on Monday
night

The team also could not locate Rakhi's husband and other family members.

Doctors had carried out the autopsy at the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital.

Keeping in mind the sensitive nature of the case, the doctors had videographed the entire postmortem process.

The body has been kept at the mortuary of the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. "The postmortem report will come on Monday," the police said. Rakhi's body was found by the police on Monday night.

The husband-wife duo is shifting the blame of the maid's alleged torture and murder on each other whenever they are being jointly interrogated at the Chanakyapuri station.

Jagriti has been booked under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC, and the Juvenile Justice Act for allegedly torturing and murdering the maid and assaulting another servant, Ramphal, with rods and an electric iron.

Dhananjay has been booked under IPC sections 201, 202 for causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information to screen the offender and under the JJ Act.

While Rakhi had been working as a fullt-ime maid for 10 months, Ramphal was with the family for last one year.